Transhumanist $10,000,000 Prize – Origin of Information and Life

Where did the universe’s initial information come from? How did life emerge? The transhumanist are offering $10,000,000 for the answer.

Transhumanist are trying hard to crack the code.

I’ve been digging into the true nature of how our 3D physical universe operates since I first learned about imaginary numbers as a youngster. What I’ve learned and discovered has been eye-opening, to say the least. I do believe that our universe is fundamentally digital, as is DNA, the code for life. When I say “digital” I mean discrete, not smooth and continuous. At the root of our digital universe, is INFORMATION, Quantum Information, to be exact. Before there was a physical universe, there was quantum information.

In information science, information means having a finite set of options to select from, such as a series of bits as 1s and 0s. However, quantum bits (qubits), with the added superposition state of being both 1 and 0 simultaneously adds choice by an observer.

Also, in information science, an information system requires a transmitter, a receiver, a channel between the two, and both the transmitter and receiver must use some symbolic language that they both understand and agree upon before hand. Otherwise it’s not information, it’s just noise.

Where did the initial information come from? How did the initial system for life (and the universe) come about? Anyone that can answer this and show how it works will win TEN MILLION DOLLARS ($10,000,000)! I personally think no one will because I believe the critical initial information is quantum information, outside our physical universe, and I think this is strictly off-limits and inaccessible.

Also, I’ve recently come to the conclusion that our universe was created, by a most brilliant grand coder outside our physical universe. A quantum entity, if that. You might know him as God. The greatest coder that ever existed!

I’ve been monitoring this prize since 2019 and no one has solved this problem or claimed this prize.

Read what it says at the website at HeroX (https://www.herox.com/evolution2.0):

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What is the Secret of Life?

Solve the #1 Question in all of Science

Origin of Life is the hardest question in science. No one knows how the first cell came about. But there’s a simpler, more fundamental question: Where did the information come from? An answer will trigger a quantum leap in Artificial Intelligence. This may be as big as the transistor or the discovery of DNA itself. A new $10 million prize seeks a definitive answer.

The Mystery

Every cell reproduces itself from digital instructions, stored in DNA. DNA has the same features as modern digital devices: Layers of digital encoding, decoding and data storage; error detection, error correction and repair. Plus an ability to adapt that beggars the imagination.

How do living things repair and heal themselves, adapt to any situation you can imagine, and make choices? The genetic engineering capabilities of cells, which are discussed in the book Evolution 2.0, are not known to most people. But an answer suggests staggering implications for medicine, technology and the environment.

Cells re-engineer themselves, in real time, in hours… even minutes. The reason you have to finish your antibiotics is, germs can hyper-mutate at terrifying speed – then kill you with a vengeance.

How do cells “know” how to evolve? No human software does that. Give software millions of chances and billions of years and all it will do is crash. But life adapts relentlessly. How does it do this? What do cells know that we don’t?

And what about consciousness? In the human realm, only conscious beings create and modify code. Where does consciousness come from? Are cells self aware?

The Evolution 2.0 Prize focuses these issues down to one central question:

How do you get from chemicals to code? How do you get a code without designing one?

Perry Marshall and private equity investment group Natural Code LLC have issued a technology prize to find a person who can solve this.

What You Must Do to Win The Prize

You must arrange for a digital communication system to emerge or self-evolve without “cheating.” The diagram below describes the system. Without explicitly designing the system, your experiment must generate an encoder that sends digital code to a decoder. Your system needs to transmit at least five bits of information. (In other words it has to be able to represent 32 states. The genetic code supports 64.)

You have to be able to draw an encoding and decoding table and determine whether or not the data has been transmitted successfully.

So, for example, an RNA based origin of life experiment will be considered successful if it contains an encoder, message and decoder as described above. To our knowledge, this has never been done.

Does life harness undiscovered laws of physics? Are there unknown emergent properties in nature?

With CRISPR gene editing technology and exponentially accelerating AI, these are questions of burning importance.

If we can unearth the underlying forces that create and propel life, we stand to reap enormous benefits in Artificial Intelligence, engineering, computer science, nutrition, aging, health, cancer research, disease treatment and prevention.

The Problem

Natural Code LLC is a Private Equity Investment group formed to identify a naturally occurring code. Our mission is to discover, develop and commercialize core principles of nature which give rise to information, consciousness and intelligence.

Natural Code LLC will pay the researcher $100,000 for the initial discovery of such a code. If the newly discovered process is defensibly patentable, we will secure the patent(s). Once patents are granted, we will pay the full prize amount to the discoverer in exchange for the rights. Our investment group will locate or develop commercial applications for the technology.

The discoverer will retain a percentage of ongoing ownership of the technology, sharing in future profits of the company, while benefitting from the extensive finance, marketing and technology experience of our investment group. Prize amount as of May 31, 2019 is $10 million.

Code is absolutely necessary for replication and for life. Code is needed for cells to have instructions to build themselves; code is required for reproduction. Code that has the ability to re-write itself is essential for any kind of evolution to occur.

We define code as a symbolic information passed between an encoder and a decoder (Claude Shannon 1948).

So… where did the information in DNA come from? This is one of the most important and valuable questions in the history of science. Currently, no one knows the answer.

A solution to this problem will become one of the most pivotal scientific and technical discoveries of the 21st century. The winner will receive substantial recognition.

The Challenge Breakthrough

To solve this problem is far more than an object of abstract religious or philosophical discussion. It would demonstrate a mechanism for producing novel, naturally forming information systems, thus opening new channels of scientific discovery.

Such a find would have sweeping implications for Artificial Intelligence research. This would provide a solution to the most perplexing transition currently faced by the Origin Of Life field, namely the origin of coded information.

How could the genetic code (or any coding system) come into being? This would represent a landmark discovery in the history of science and alter our fundamental understanding of the universe.